Differentiable Plasticity: A New Method for Learning to LearnTo give our artificial agents similar abilities, Uber AI Labs has developed a new method called differentiable plasticity that lets us train the behavior of plastic connections through gradient descent so that they can help previously-trained networks adapt to future conditions...

70% Engineering EstimatesI just made a prediction training targeted at engineers and data scientists. The idea is to train people in the same way engineers and scientists train machine learning systems: by having them predict known outcomes of interest. The goal is to improve people's ability to make judgement based predictions about impact and cost (when little data is available)...

Data Science Articles & Videos

Deep Learning for RadarsRadars have a long story. They used to be large, expensive and available for military only. Nowadays, many cars have a bunch of single-chip radars embedded into bumpers to enable autonomous emergency braking, cross-traffic alerts or lane change assist...

DeepMimic: Example-Guided Deep Reinforcement Learning of Physics-Based Character Skills
A longstanding goal in character animation is to combine data-driven specification of behavior with a system that can execute a similar behavior in a physical simulation, thus enabling realistic responses to perturbations and environmental variation. We show that well-known reinforcement learning (RL) methods can be adapted to learn robust control policies capable of imitating a broad range of example motion clips, while also learning complex recoveries, adapting to changes in morphology, and accomplishing user-specified goals...

Transforming data with zerosI’m currently working with a hydrologist and he raised a question that occurs quite frequently with real data — what do you do when the data look like they need a log transformation, but there are zero values?...

Using AWS DeepLens to translate American Sign Language to speechASLens uses AWS DeepLens to capture video of a person signing in American Sign Language (ASL). Then it runs a deep learning model (built with Amazon SageMaker) against each frame. When a letter from the ASL alphabet is recognised, AWS DeepLens plays the audio of that letter (using an MP3 file generated using Amazon Polly). ASLens runs locally on the AWS DeepLens, so an internet connection is not required, eliminating bandwidth issues and increasing speed....

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